"They're jist somehow," she summed up,"awful satisfyin'."Īnd about falling in love, "(p. I d'know as they's any two folks that pleasures me more,". 170) Speaking of a visit with some friends,"Hit was a good visit, warn't it? I do think a heap of William an' Jane." She felt strong and able and full of a queer, bubbly exhilaration such as she had known sometimes as a child when some new adventure loomed." 82) "She felt an enlargement of herself, an expansion, as if now she had become big enough to take in the whole land that stretched before her. I appreciated many little pearls of wisdom she had in her no-nonsense life and her love for the things that really matter in life. I also enjoyed the simple, sweet relationships she had with her husband and neighbors.
I enjoyed the descriptions of them living and moving around the land in West Virginia (a favorite backpacking location for me). Published in 1956, it is a story of Hannah Fowler, a frontier woman and her family, their dealings with the land and the Shawnee and Cherokee Indians before Kentucky became a state (circa 1770). The voice of the novel is infectious, written in the rhythm and syntax of the Kentucky hills that Mrs. A harsh blizzard is so well described that a body gets a chill in June from reading it. The setting of Kentucky wilderness and hills is vividly painted. Janice Holt Giles was a master of setting and mood. Homesteading, building a log cabin and barn, babies, livestock, spinning wheels and looms, gardens, and wolves become part and parcel of Hannah's life with Tice Fowler. Hannah meets a man named Matthias, Tice for short, and her life really begins. They were out there in the woods, in virgin country that had seen very few white people, arguing with the Indians about who was going to live there. It's set during the Revolutionary War, 1778, but the impact of the war on Kentucky territory was nonexistent. Yes, all it took was discrepancies about land title to make people move west.Īlong the way, there are mentions of Daniel Boone, George Rogers Clark, and many names that I recognize as place names in Kentucky near where my grandparents lived.
Hannah and her father are moving from the Pennsylvania/Virginia border to Kentucky, to a place where a man can get clear title to his land, with no arguments as to which country or territory he belongs to. Hannah Fowler! Somebody needs to turn this book into a movie.
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